June 14, 2008
Graphing Chipper
Chipper Jones did not play on Friday due to a freak gardening accident:
Jones, hitting .414 with 15 homers and 41 RBIs, fouled off a pitch while taking his last round of BP and the ball ricocheted off the crossbar at the top of the batting cage, striking him just under his left eye. The five-time All-Star suffered a contusion and was taken for a CT scan, which was negative. He returned to the clubhouse in the ninth inning.
"I didn't know it was going to take three hours to get an X-ray," Jones said. "They put me through all the tests, and I'm just experiencing a little blurred vision in close. Other than that, I'm fine.
"The first thing that flashed into my mind was when I was 9 or 10 years old, when I saw a kid hit a foul ball off his eye and he lost his eye. But it got me just below the eye. I've been sucker-punched a few times there, so I can take it. I hope that I don't have a big old fat shiner tomorrow."
Nice macho posturing by Chipper there. In twenty years he'll be telling reporters how he hit .400 with one eye and a hamstring held together by duct tape. :-)
He's still batting .414 and the day off raised the probability of his hitting .400, as the latest graph of Jones's probability of hitting .400 shows. Chipper's probability of hitting .400 is now 0.00113, or about 1 in 885.
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